DATtool v1.01

DATtool can be used to extract and repack the DAT files (like audio.dat) from Richard Burns Rally.

DATtool is a command-line application, so it can be easily used to do automated installations. It also supports Windows Explorer “drag and drop” use.

To use from Windows Explorer, just drag a DAT file over the DATtool.exe icon to extract it. ‘audio.dat’ would be extracted to a directory named ‘audio’. To repack the directory to a DAT file, just drag the directory icon over the DATtool.exe icon.

To extract archives from the command line, use ‘dattool -e file.dat directory’. To create a DAT file, use ‘dattool -c directory file.dat’.

Note that DATtool overwrites all files without asking, so make sure you know what you are doing and always make backups of the original game files when doing modifications.

Thank you for your awesome work man. I discovered your mods with Rbrift and I think you simply are the best moder for this game (though I did love your Joux plane track for AC too ;-)
That’s why I would like to ask you : do you think it could be possible to have permanently the engine sound we have when a door is broken in RBR ?
Cheers !

I used this to extract the music (no wonder I liked the intro theme — it’s by Paul Oakenfold!), but that’s not all there is to it. Apparently all the .ogg files include a non-supported header, likely inserted by SCi themselves, which prevents the files from playing in most players. However, there’s no encryption or compression, so if you strip off all the bytes up to the first “OggS” (4F 67 67 53) in a hex editor, the music plays perfectly.